Flanture

You are definitely attracted with my post title, right? Well, as you probably already know Flanture delivers when promise is made.

Free Tetris ActionsScript 3.0 Game Engine is created by Richard Lord and his Big Room project. You can download the code from Google Code. Besides actual game engine you will get excellent KeyPoll class which is appropriate AS3.0 supplement for AS2.0 Key.isDown() functionality and user keyboard interaction.

 

Now everyone can make Tetris-like game Personal Edition. I hope I can learn a thing or two from reading the code, since AS3.0 isn’t my favorite snack [yet]

As far as I’m aware of, this one is first Twitter mashup among FlashDen stock files which uses Twitter Search API and Google Maps API. It displays Twitter updates about an topic user is interested in as they happen.

Powerfull toy for tracking products or company buzz or discover news. If CNN thinks its important to follow Twitter streams, your website should also follow this idea.

Published size of the file is 65 kb, opens with Flash CS3+ and ActionScript version is AS3.0. File is well documented, author is EgoAnt. Get headstart, this Tweet Map is published today! Talking about news as they happend …

Completely new advanced Flash XML Video Player (published date is yesterday March 12th) by ravenwill is solution that fits any website scenario. Some of the features include:

- All fed from a single XML file
- Category driven, add an infinite number of categories
- Each category can hold an infinite amount of videos
- Videos can have both a brief description (html formatted) including links, a thumbnail and running times.
- Each video can also have an optional, more in-depth description. This features an auto-scrolling textbox should the text become too large.
- Sleek design that fits most website scenarios allowing for fluid integration with new or existing sites.

I really like optional info panel above playing video space. Automatic scrolling text is my favorite here and text is also HTML styles enabled. Player is written in ActionScript 3.0, it is well documented and published size is very small, only 54.3 Kb.

 

Great work ravenwill !

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Here is something new, working embedded Google search Flash file, completely written in ActionScript 3.0. No other server side code is needed, no PHP scripting, this is directly official Google API connection, ready for any Flash website.

Design is easily customized by changing movie clip, it’s skinnable and piece of cake to integrate (just drag and drop). Common search filters are also available. Really great file by unformatt.

The Whirled Flash Game Developer Challenge is a standing game development contest that runs every three months. All games that are uploaded to Whirled during the contest period and comply with the conditions are eligible. There are two categories for prizes - single and multiplayer games. What this means is that if you miss the deadline, don’t worry much because four challenges are held during every year.

* 1st Place: $7,500
* 2nd Place: $5,000
* 3rd Place: $4,000
* 4th Place: $2,000
* 5th Place: $1,000

* 1st Place: $2,000
* 2nd Place: $1,500
* 3rd Place: $1,000
* 4th Place: $750
* 5th Place: $250

There are some conditions for participants. First of all you have to be original creator of the game and you must hold rights for it. Games may not contain advertising or links to 3rd party sites, but you can link to your own site(s). One of the most important condition is game must be written in ActionScript3.0, sorry no as2.0 code. Also you must be 18 or above and you may submit unlimited number of games. Read full rules here.

 

Main media type files can be used like images, videos or even SWFs in full or thumbnails view. Because XML is used, carousel can contain infinite number of items. You don’t have to worry about it, just your video or image and carousel makes it work. Since FLVPlayback component is used you can customize skins and player colors for any individual video. Text style is provided from external css file, which is much easier for customization.

Carousel comes in 3 versions: full source, compiled component and standalone page. Component parameters can be set via component panel but also (which is really great) via external XML file. Some of the parameters are 3D distortion, carousel offset and radius, thumb size, photos border parameters, reflection and shadow options.

Another great thing about 3D XML Carousel is that 3D engine behind carousel is original, so you don’t need any extra code package to learn or install.

Unusual banner rotators, unique for Flash Platform can enhance visual appeal of website or online presentation. Next Flash Banner Rotator is really original and easy to customize. Transition between images is done via interesting clouds mask which is accomplished using ‘perlinNoise’ and threshold method.

You can see on the image below how this fancy transition happens. On top left side is one image and rest of it is next one in array. Transition takes form of a cloud. Click to see it in animation mode.

Banner rotator is written in actionscript3.0 and it is completely XML driven. Everything is ready for customization: buttons, hover and text colors, button number, shape and position as well as delay time.